Wu Fengming

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The 86-year-old Wu Fengming is a pioneer of China's science and technology terminology standardization work.

He was the deputy director and editor of the National Science and Technology Committee for Terms, and a member of the TAC Science and Technology Translation Committee.

In the 1980s, he assisted the former vice presidents of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Yan Jici and Qian Sanqiang to create the National Natural Science Terminology Committee and served as the committee's vice director. Wu, together with other translators, carried out the terminology translation and validation work in over 20 disciplines.

The Natural Science Terminology Research Journal was also created by him, further normalizing terminology translation in China.

He received the Outstanding Contribution to Translation Industry Award at the Second National Translation Conference in Beijing on Dec. 6, 2012.

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